2025年6月英语六级听力真题 卷二 录音三

Recording three

录音三

Why do we stop making goals for ourselves and stop progressing in life?

我们为什么停止为自己设定目标，停止在生活中进步？

One reason is the belief that we should accept who we are and not constantly strive to improve ourselves.

一个原因是，我们相信应该接受自己是谁，而不是不断地努力提升自己。

The mistake we make with this is that, whilst self acceptance is imperative, it should actually be used as the basis for growth.

我们在这方面的错误在于，虽然自我接纳是至关重要的，但它实际上应该被用作成长的基础。

When we are not growing, learning and seeking improvements in our lives, we tend to stagnate, accepting what is and stop believing we can be better.

当我们不再成长、学习和寻求生活中的进步时，我们往往会停滞不前，安于现状，并停止相信自己可以变得更好。

A key tool for creating goals and progressing is using our imagination.

设定目标和取得进步的一个关键工具是运用我们的想象力。

Yet, as is so often the case, by the time we've reached midlife, we've stopped dreaming about what we want to achieve, and feel quite negatively about goal setting.

然而，情况往往如此，当我们人到中年时，我们就不再梦想自己想要实现什么，并且对设定目标感到相当消极。

Instead of feeling confidence, happiness and satisfaction from achieving our goals, we feel we are always falling short.

我们不再从实现目标中感受到自信、快乐和满足，反而总觉得自己做得不够好。

That leads to disappointment, and we stop dreaming.

这导致了失望，于是我们停止了梦想。

We stop imagining the life we'd like to have or the person we'd like to be, quickly finding ourselves shattered by the pain of our reality.

我们不再想象自己想要的生活或想要成为的人，并很快发现自己被现实的痛苦所击垮。

Up until now, unless we work in the creative industry, we've found the idea of using “play” a bit childish.

到目前为止，除非我们在创意行业工作，否则我们会觉得使用“玩耍”这个概念有点幼稚。

In the West, we are mostly operating from our heads, the rational mind.

在西方，我们主要运用头脑，即理性思维。

But it's beginning to be better understood, because using our imagination is actually one of the most powerful things we could ever do.

但人们开始更好地理解这一点，因为运用想象力实际上是我们所能做的最强大的事情之一。

The problem with finding ourselves irritated for not achieving the goal, is because the goal always changes, and we're always adapting, whether we realize it or not.

我们发现自己因未能实现目标而烦恼，问题在于目标总是在变化，无论我们是否意识到，我们总是在适应。

What happens, therefore, is that we end up feeling like we are never going to reach our goals.

因此，最终发生的情况是，我们感觉自己永远无法达成目标。

And herein lies one of the biggest misconceptions and reasons for failure, dissatisfaction and unhappiness.

而正是在这里，存在着一个最大的误解，也是导致失败、不满和不开心的原因之一。

We measure against the goal, rather than where we've come from.

我们总是对照目标来衡量自己，而不是对照起点。

Dan Sullivan calls this “the gap and the gain” .

丹·沙利文（Dan Sullivan）将此称为“差距与获得”（the gap and the gain）。

We measure always against the goal, which we never feel we're reaching rather than the gain that is where we've come from.

我们总是对照那个我们感觉自己永远无法达到的目标来衡量自己，而不是对照我们出发点的进步（即获得的成果）。

In measuring where we've come from, rather than where we're trying to get to, we see results.

通过衡量我们的起点（我们来自哪里），而不是我们试图到达的终点，我们就能看到成果。

We see things we've taken for granted or not noticed.

我们会看到那些我们曾经认为理所当然或未曾注意到的事情。

It's a simple, yet profound change in perception.

这是一个简单却深刻的观念转变。

And what I love about it is the power it has to instantly shift us up a gear.

我喜爱这个方法的原因在于，它拥有立即将我们状态提升一档的力量。

It's so, so simple, yet has an immediate positive impact on our thinking.

它如此简单，却对我们的思维产生了立竿见影的积极影响。

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.

问题22至25基于您刚刚听到的录音。

Question 22, What should self-acceptance be used as according to the speaker?

问题22： 根据演讲者的观点，自我接纳应该被用作什么？

Question 23, What do people tend to do when they have reached midlife?

问题23： 人们在步入中年时倾向于做什么？

Question 24, Why do we find ourselves irritated for not achieving the goal?

问题24： 我们为什么发现自己因未能实现目标而烦恼？

Question 25, What does the speaker say has an immediate positive impact on our thinking?

问题25： 演讲者说什么对我们的思维有立竿见影的积极影响？

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